KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof. Nidia Caetano
School of Engineering (ISEP), Polytechnic of Porto (IPP),
PortugalAbout Prof. Nidia Caetano: Nídia de Sá Caetano received
her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical engineering from the
Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP), Porto,
Portugal, in 1987 and 1996, respectively.
She started the teaching activity in 1992 as Assistant Professor
and is today Coordinator Professor with the Chemical Engineering
Department, School of Engineering (ISEP), Polytechnic Institute
of Porto (IPP), Porto, Portugal. She was sub director of the
Department for 4 years, having been laboratory director for ten
years.
From March 2013 she has been the director of the Master Course
in Sustainable Energies of ISEP, in the Mechanical Engineering
Department.
Prof. Caetano is member of the Portuguese Engineers Association
(OE) and also of the Portuguese Association of Environmental and
Sanitary Engineering (APESB) where she is involved in the solid
waste section.
She started her R&D career in the LSRE of FEUP in 1987, where
she did her PhD research in MTBE kinetic study in a batch
reactor and simulation / operation of a fixed bed reactor. Later
on (in 1998), she co-funded the LEPAE of FEUP (nowadays LEPABE),
where she is senior researcher. She is also collaborator of
CIETI, a R&D center at ISEP.
Her research interests include biofuels (waste to energy:
biodiesel, bioethanol, biogas, combustion) either from waste
biomass, oil or microalgae; efficient use of solar energy for
microalgae production; valorization of solid waste and
wastewater treatment, always using a sustainability based
approach, having participated in several projects with the
industry.
She has supervised several Master and PhD students, is the
co-author of several book chapters and papers in international
journals and conferences. She has also participated in several
conference organizing and scientific committees, having
presented more than 100 communications. She has been the
reviewer of numerous scientific publications in international
indexed journals and conferences and projects evaluator.

Prof. Carlos Felgueiras
CIETI/ISEP, Portugal
Manuel Carlos Felgueiras received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical and computer engineering from the Faculty of
Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, in 1987 and
2008, respectively.
He started is professional in 1987 as electronic designer for
automation systems. Later was invited to supervise a test
laboratory for verifying the accomplishment of European
Standards in thermoelectric household appliances. He started the
teaching activity in 1994 as Assistant Professor and later on as
Adjunct Professor and researcher with the Department of
Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Polytechnic
Institute of Porto (IPP), Porto, Portugal. His research
interests include design for debug and test of mixed-signals,
remote experimentation in e-learning and renewable energy
sources.
Prof. Felgueiras is member of the Portuguese Engineers
Association and also the Global Online Laboratory Consortium
(GOLC). He has published about 35 papers and includes the
scientific committee of several conferences.

Prof. Saad Mekhilef, IET Fellow
University of Malaya, Malaysia

Saad Mekhilef received the B. Eng. degree in Electrical
Engineering from University of Setif, in 1995, and Master of
Engineering science and PhD from University of Malaya in 1998
and 2003 respectively. He is currently professor at Department
of Electrical Engineering; University of Malaya. Prof. Saad is
the author and co-author of more than 250 publications in
international journals and proceedings. He is actively involved
in industrial consultancy, for major corporations in the power
electronics projects. His research interest includes power
conversion techniques, control of power converters, renewable
energy and energy efficiency.

Prof. Dr. Saad Mekhilef is an IET Fellow and IEEE senior member.
He is the associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Power
Electronics and Journal of Power Electronics. He is currently a
Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Malaya. He is the Director of Power Electronics
and Renewable Energy Research Laboratory-PEARL- He is the author
and coauthor of more than 250 publications in international
journals and proceedings (189 ISI journal papers) with more than
10000 citations and 46 H-index, 53 Ph.D. and master students
have graduated under his supervision. He is actively involved in
industrial consultancy for major corporations in the power
electronics projects. His research interests include power
conversion techniques, control of power converters, renewable
energy, and energy efficiency.